This one was a little tricky to sort out in my chosen “surf edition” approach for this round in 2019. I couldn’t figure out where/how to go, actually. Then I remembered that Brian Hilbers at Fineline has a couple boards named “ant,” the Ant and the Micro Ant.
I grabbed the Fineline “micro ANT” flower image and the label. I made a bunch of copies of the ant in the label and sprinkled them between the surfboards. Then I made a series of layers with the surfboard flower, rotated the boards to set up an animated GIF, and converted the layers to frames for an animated GIF. The image quality in the final GIF isn’t quite what I was hoping for, but I wanted a reduced file size. Tradeoffs abound! I’m reasonably pleased with the outcome.